Documenting a personal quest for non-toxic housing.
Sunday, January 2, 2005Update
My situation has quickly become more critical. My elderly relative's prognosis quickly went from months, to weeks, to days. Then yesterday, just hours after being moved from hospital to hospice, she passed. I'm very thankful that she suffered so little discomfort and indignity in the end. We should all be so lucky when the time comes. But for me the whirlwind has now arrived and I have no idea where it may leave me -though the likely destinations tend to look rather grim. I may have little time left where I am and little to no personal control over what is happening. It now seems that only the most immediate solutions may still be practical and my expectations for aid are low. Bad as my situation may be, what is my plight to that of the millions now in even more dire situations in coastal Asia? I'm lost in the noise of a whole world in crisis.
Still, a glimmer of light has appeared. Tonight I stumbled onto a link to a new modular component housing product that is virtually the exact thing I have been seeking for the past 20 years. Called the Tomahouse, this is an advanced aluminum T-slot profile and modular panel based building system using a simple modular pavilion structure scheme. It's similar in some ways to what Unique Structural Systems was offering but never managed to get to market and it so closely matches everything I have ever thought about modular component housing design that it's scary. It's like these people plucked this out of my own head -or perhaps I'm being taunted by some malicious deity, the perfect answer to my problems now being dangled just out of reach in front of me at the moment it's too late to matter... If only this company had existed years ago! I could have stockpiled these sorts of parts even in NJ and handled construction alone just as I has hoped! Now, whether or not this discovery comes in time to help me depends largely on how cooperative this company is -and by now most readers of this site should know how rare such cooperation is these days.
I do not know how much longer this site will be on-line or how much longer I will have Internet access. My articles have been helpful to some so I will try to keep this running as long as I can. Again, I thank all those who've sent me encouraging feedback and support.
